Rockville Farm Day and A Day at the Park

I kept meaning to write a post about going to the Rockville Farm Day. But, this post has sat here and I have yet to write anything about it, so I will just leave you with a bunch of pictures from our fun day in Lexington. 

And we had a fun day at the park. Love that school is back in session so the park is never crowded. 

Painting

Kristen had the opportunity to join other local homeschoolers and participate in a painting class. I knew she would enjoy it, since she is very creative and loves drawing and painting. However, I didn't know she would fall in love with painting. 

She had to mix colors and use different brushes. She was so proud of herself and had such an amazing time. 

Her final product was better than what I would be able to do.

And we found the perfect spot for it on the wall.

After she did her class she was so excited and wanted to teach an art painting class during school. Lauren, Dallas and I were her students and we all followed her directions.

Here is our finished products. 

Kristen also watched a Bob Ross show and got inspired. I guess during our next painting class we will be painting "happy little trees".

September

It's hard to believe that September has come and gone. The beach seems like a distant memory and school has started back up once again.  We started September reading one of our favorite books.

Kristen was our reader for the day. She did an excellent job. 

Before reading the book we made little mouse finger puppets. No one wanted to wear them for the story, but they were still super cute.

We also talked about cause and effect. My all time favorite cause and effect....if you don't listen to your Mom you get in trouble. Kristen focused on doing a cause and effect worksheet.

Dallas got to count the mouse's cookies and had to match the number with the number of cookies. He has 1-10 down, so we will be moving on. 

Lauren worked on her spelling. Oh the fun times of learning to spell words in the English language. Look at her concentration!

This month we learned about apples. Who knew there were so many different apples in the world. I only buy the ones that are on sale and never pay attention to the name of the apple. We did a comparison of four different apples: Braburn, Granny Smith, Yellow Delicious and Gala. 

Mine and Kristen's favorite was the Braburn. It was crisp and juicy and delicious. We are going to make some candy and caramel apples on sticks and we'll be using Braburn apples. I will be buying these when they are on sale again. The Granny Smith, while being very tart, was the most refreshing one.

We also did an apple rotting experiment, which is still going on. We will compare our predictions to what really happened this week. In the world of seven and eight year olds, rotting apples are so exciting. 

They also worked on their "Seasons of an Apple Tree" book.

We did some painting with apples. Dallas only wanted to use "his mustard" for his picture. The boy loves mustard...and no, it wasn't really mustard.

Kristen wrote a story about a magical apple. One day her teacher ate an apple and she disappeared. She had to finish the story and did a wonderful job being creative. 

We played a fun apple game and Lauren won!

We also planted some apple seeds just like Johnny Appleseed and drank some apple cider with caramel that tasted just like a caramel apple.

Overall our September was a very productive fun school month.